[mythtv-users] Update libcec in ubuntu

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/23/2014 12:20 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>
> I've not put much time into this but I have still been unable to get 
> it to work correctly using either method. Looking in the config.ep 
> file created at configure time I seem to be getting an error "error: 
> 'LibCecInit' was not declared in this scope". I guess that means that 
> the Pulse Eight version of libcec does not have a required function?
>
> I think the relevant snippet from config.ep is as follows:
>
> check_cxx -I/usr/local/include
> BEGIN /tmp/mythtv_conf.cerE6zZL.cpp
>     1   #include <libcec/cec.h>
>     2   #include <iostream>
>     3   using namespace std;
>     4   using namespace CEC;
>     5   #include <libcec/cecloader.h>
>     6   int main(void) {
>     7       if (CEC_LIB_VERSION_MAJOR < 1 || (CEC_LIB_VERSION_MAJOR == 
> 1 &&
>     8                                         CEC_LIB_VERSION_MINOR < 5))
>     9           return 0;
>    10       return (long) LibCecInit;
>    11   }
> END /tmp/mythtv_conf.cerE6zZL.cpp
> ccache g++ -D_ISOC99_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112 
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112 
> -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -I/usr/local/include -c -o 
> /tmp/mythtv_conf.tRrTzqh8.o /tmp/mythtv_conf.cerE6zZL.cpp
> /tmp/mythtv_conf.cerE6zZL.cpp: In function 'int main()':
> /tmp/mythtv_conf.cerE6zZL.cpp:10:19: error: 'LibCecInit' was not 
> declared in this scope
>      return (long) LibCecInit;
>                    ^
>
> (Note in the config.ep file the up chevron on the final line is 
> directly below the 'L' in LibCecInit, I guess email formatting is out 
> a bit).
>
> I did a search in cec.h for "LibCecInit" and it was not found but I 
> don't know if that is actually how things work or not. cecloader.h had 
> references to "LibCecInitialise" if that has any relevance (probably not).
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.

You need to use a supported version of libcec to get MythTV's libcec 
support (or just use something that actually allows you to do useful 
things with CEC, like libcec-daemon)

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11338

Mike